X's stated goal is to comply with the laws of any given country that it operates in. As the article states, there is a court order to restrict that particular users account https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1920426409358455081.

This is a nothing burger.

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utku1337 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I suggest you read the article. Officially restricting an account is one thing, but shadow banning without a court order is another. Something suspicious is happening, and the article talks about it.

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pegasus 4 days ago | parent [-]

In my understanding of the article it says they did get a court order: "Elon Musk didn’t say anything about the situation and X didn’t defend freedom of speech. They only said there was a court order and they couldn’t do anything. But many people believe they should have defended free speech."

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mnw21cam 4 days ago | parent [-]

My reading of the article is that they had a court order telling them to close down the original account, but they seem to be shadow-banning the new account without one.

	▲	pegasus 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		On a second reading, your interpretation might be the right one, it's not super-clear.
	▲	pessimizer 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Mine too. But that sounds to me like they're protecting the new account by limiting its reach, not being helpful to the Turkish government. People who seek it out will still see it, but it may pass unseen for a little while from Erdogan who could get a new court order to shut it down with a 30-second phone call. Somebody may have been trying to help (and I'm sure escalated internally before daring to shadow-ban rather than ban outright for "ban-evasion"), and is getting sabotaged by people who want to score dumb points against Musk, who I'm sure doesn't care either way.

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tshaddox 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The fact that it's their "stated goal" does not exempt them from criticism.

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blaufuchs 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

At this point I think we can safely retire “nothing burger”, can’t remember the last time it meant something other than “an inconvenient story for my narrative that I’d rather gloss over”